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July 04, 2013

Thankful Thursday

When I started thankful Thursday in January I said that I would keep it going through June. I missed last week because I simply forgot! Going forward I may not do it every week but I will continue to have pretty regular Thankful Thursday giveaways because I really enjoy them and it's been a great way to reduce a bit of volume in my studio.

Who am I kidding? You can't tell that anything is gone from this room. Let's stick with the "I'm enjoying it" justification.

Today, of course, I am thankful to be an American and a Virginian. I know we are all proud of our home countries and hometowns and I think that's a really good thing. Independence Day is our favorite holiday around here. That's because it's all about food. Chris is grilling ribs for us today and we will have squash from the garden and corn from the store. We planted corn this year and the darned raccoons ate ALL of it. I am not thankful for raccoons. They are pests.

Let's get to the business of the post.

Today is the last day of the Thrive fabric palette. I really love this one and it's one of my all-time favorites. This week the drawing prize will be the Stash Pack of the Thrive palette.

To enter just add a comment to this post answering this question:

If you could design a custom palette for yourself what would it look like?

I would design a palette that includes the colors the Australian outback, one of my favorite places in the entire world. Reds, oranges, purples for the topography, blue for the sky and gray-green for the foliage.

I think the thrive colorway is the closest to perfect that fits my personality....I like indigo blues, gray-blues, turquoise, sea-blue-greens in many shades, and I like to accent with mustard yellows, straw-yellows, soft butter cream yellows.

"I caahn't decide." (Remember that from Arthur?)I love everything, even like blue now!!
Have a great 4th--sorry about the corn. DH just went to Fred Meyer's to get some to grill with the rib eye steaks--it doesn't grow well here.
Just decided: for today, I like Jean's palette!

Hmmm, it would have lots of colors and both a bright gradient and a pastel gradient....maybe yellow into pink into blue to use as sky backgrounds. The bright gradient would be rainbow (you already have that one) you know, it just might all be gradients! Aren't you glad I am not dictating your palettes?

My palette would be based on the colors of the tropics, the deep blue of the deeper water and the lighter bright turquoise color of the shallower water with a yellow green, and hibiscus oranges and pinks to round it out. And yes, I'm channeling my inner Hawaiian! BTW, have you heard that you are not supposed to tell people that you are from Virginia? If they aren't you'll make them feel bad! Hope you are enjoying your 4th of July!

Happy 4th! To answer the question - my favourite palette is (always!) black, purple, green and red. All the primary colours are the best! Hmmmm - but then again, I like the muted hues too - the rusts, beiges and antique-y colours.

I really love your blog. I was thinking of it today because I'm doing some dyeing. I am always drawn to green, blue, purple but maybe I'd try to throw some orange in for kicks and because I'm starting to like that color. I really love your thrive palette. Thanks!

I love ombré (shaded) fabrics - they are very versatile - recently I used some in a tumbling block quilt so my choice of palette would be the seven colors of the rainbow, each graded from pale to dark.